Art
Creating a Pantheon of Black American Gods, from James Baldwin to Nina Simone
“We’ve had Civil Rights, and a lot of people we idealize, especially in the Black community, we treat them like they are gods,” says the artist Tylonn Sawyer.
N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art
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On Memorial Day, an Artist Burns and Buries a Confederate Flag
At Detroit's N’Namdi Center for Contemporary Art, John Sims conducted a two-hour-long Confederate flag funeral.
Art
Found Material Sculptures that Radiate Residual Energy
DETROIT — Perhaps I should preface my discussion of Homage: Regular Folk with a brief declaration of my own sentiments regarding the energetic qualities of inanimate objects.